Monday, 22 November 2010

sound/How is sexuality represented in skins

  • Tv drama
  • sexuality
  • moral panics
Diegetic-natural sound added to a scene

Non Diegetic- sound added to a scene /soundtrack potential problem- less realistic, potential benefit-more dramatic

Sound bridge-sound which carries over two scenes, literally creating 'bridge' between events

Incedental music-short sequence of sound to create an emotion/feeling.

Asychronons- sound which creates an opposite emotion to the one on screen.

Contrapunctual-sound which creates an opposite emotion to the one on screen.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9lg5S1CwYE&list=SL

I have to link the video because embedding was disabled by request.

The clip starts with the camera giving us an close up of the guys face, his eyes are already open when we see the shot of him in his bed, this shows us that he hasn't been sleeping. The shot is also a slow outwards after we have the close up, the slow zoom tells me that he is tired or it would have been a fast paced camera shot that would have shown that he was feeling more active.
also in this scene we can hear church bells, this might suggest that the character has either been woken up by the bells or that the bells hold some symbolic meaning to him.
We then get to see the bedspread that he's lying under, it has a naked man and women on it, this could suggest that the character is a very bold person and doesn't really care what other people think, and it doesn't look like a bedspread that his parents would by for him so he probably bought it himself, this also shows independence. The other thing that I could infer from the sheet , is that he is lying in the middle of the two naked people in the sheet this could suggest that he is bi-sexual. This links back to the church bells and it could suggest that he is awake because of a quarrel with his sexuality and his faith.
Then then get a shot of his room as the camera comes out, we can see that he is a very tidy person.
We also see in the corner of his room a supermarket packing trolley, you could only acquire one of those by stealing it, this tells us that he isn't a goody two shoes kid and to be able to get the trolley into his room must have made a lot of noise, surely his parents might have noticed unless from this we could tell that is parents don't really care about him or what he does.

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